Wednesday, August 05, 2015

New Concerns of Mine

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

HOW POWER WORKS IN THE UNITED STATED AND EGYPT

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I don't have time to elaborate now, but today's news is full of great examples of how power works. To see how power works in cap...
Sunday, October 06, 2013

POISONOUS LIES CAN RIP OUR COUNTRY APART

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We don’t watch Fox News at our house because we understand it was founded to be a Republican “news” outlet, which is to say it's a prop...
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THE POWER OF LIES WEALTH AND FEAR TO SHUT DOWN THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY IN HISTORY

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For those of us who are mystified by the behavior of the Republicans in Congress two recent articles have been useful.  They reveal that a ...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

JOHN BOEHNER IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH

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The way I understand it John Boehner could get a vote to fund the government if he would be willing to let it happen.  The problem is that ...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

CULTURE MAKES SOME UNACCEPTABLE PRACTICES SEEM NATURAL. BUT COULD WHAT IS CONVENTIONAL NOW BRING DOWN CIVILIZATION?

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We all tend to reject some practices that were considered conventional in the past.  Would we countenance the way the EuroAmericans treated...
Monday, September 09, 2013

NON-VIOLENCE IS ALIVE IN SYRIA, STILL

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AlJazeera today has an article about the non-violent movement in Syria -- Yes, a non-violent movement.  Who knew? Syria's nonviolen...
Sunday, September 08, 2013

Reproducing the blunders of the past

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The United State government seems to be cursed with a tendency to blunder over and over again in the Middle East.  At least it seems about ...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

MORAL SENSIBILITY, NOT RELIGION, IS A FUNDAMENTAL QUALITY OF THE HUMAN BEING

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Forgive me for some abstract thoughts on an issue of importance to me:  Ruminating on morals I need to distinguish between “religion” and...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

THE WASHINGTON CESSPOOL -- WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED?

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Watching Bill Moryers’s interview with Mark Leibovich  today, on the system of relations in Washington, I learned what I could not have m...
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Thursday, August 08, 2013

"ONE DROP OF NEGRO BLOOD": WHAT IT MEANT AND WHAT IT MEANS

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[This is a revised version, 8/8/13] It took me many years in my teaching to declare to my students that societies run on myths.  At this ...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

WHEN THE RICH CONTROL NEWS, ADVERTISING, AND CONGRESS

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An unknown group is funding an advertising blitz in Missouri to reduce state taxes.  They tried through the Missouri legislature to cut sta...
Monday, July 29, 2013

McClatchy: CIA Operative Fabricated Reasons for Kidnapping a Muslim Cleric in Italy

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The more we learn about the Kidnapping of the Muslim cleric in Italy the more unsavory it becomes.  Here is what an unappreciated whistle b...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Mobilizing "the masses" and slandering a president: More reason to worry about the Republican Party

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At this moment, when we all wonder about what is happening to this country, I want to reproduce here some signs of how seriously the politi...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

The world's most successful gun salesman:

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Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, says that he represents the mothers and fathers and families wh...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Working list on "The Moral Imagination in Social Practice"

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This is a working list on the topic of the Moral Imagination in Social Practice  [11/10/12].  [To accommodate requests for notes from a f...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Can Planet Earth Be Saved?

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Delegates are gathered in Doha to talk about global warming again but scarcely anyone believes much of consequence will result.  Nick Clark...

Secret British files of torture exposed

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Governments claim the sole right to exercise violence and they also can excuse or dissimulate or expunge the exercise of violence -- at le...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Shameful strategies to deter voting -- in America?

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Elizabeth Drew’s account [ New York Review 12/20/12] of the tactics used by the Republican Party to restrict the Democratic vote  – narro...